Washington State Patrol detectives are working with a forensic engineering firm that specializes in carbon monoxide poisonings to investigate a Monday night death at The Evergreen State College, the agency announced Wednesday.
Jonathan Rodriguez, 21, of DuPont died, one of three people suspected of being poisoned by the odorless, colorless gas around 8 p.m. Monday night in student housing at the west Olympia college.
Earlier Monday, an alarm company contracted by the college responded to carbon monoxide alarms, Evergreen spokeswoman Farra Layne Hayes said. Hayes said she did not have details about what that response entailed or whether the alarms came from the same modular housing unit where the student died.
Hayes said Wednesday that she did not have further information about the conditions of the hospitalized students or if they had been released. The State Patrol had no update on the hospitalized students. The Thurston County Coroner’s Office, which is only notified when someone dies, also did not have an update, Coroner Gary Warnock said Wednesday.
